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Mother Teresa Stable After Suffering Heart Failure

Mother Teresa remained in intensive care in a Calcutta nursing home Thursday after suffering heart failure, but the Nobel Peace Prize laureate was conscious and in stable condition, a doctor said.

"At present she is on respiratory support in intensive care," Dr. A.K. Bardhan told Reuters. "She is fully conscious and stable."

Bardhan said the 85-year-old Roman Catholic missionary was admitted to the Woodlands Nursing Home in Calcutta Tuesday night with a temperature of 103 F and severe vomiting.

Bardhan described the cardio-respiratory complications as heart failure. He said Mother Teresa, fitted with a heart pacemaker in 1989, had suffered heart failure in the past and responded to treatment.

Mother Teresa founded a network of missions for the poor and the sick in India's most densely populated city and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.

Her health began to deteriorate in 1989 when she was fitted with the heart pacemaker. In 1991, she was treated at a California hospital for heart disease and bacterial pneumonia.